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Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited a series of Salebria semiruhella 

 {carnella) and contributed the following note. 



" At the last meeting Mr. Stallman exhibited this species and 

 pointed out the form with a white costa to the forewings. In the 

 short series now exhibited are three forms of aberration — (1) with 

 white costal streak, (2) with yellow costal streak, (3) with the whole 

 costal area suffused with very dark scales almost obliterating the 

 rosy colour of the type. Hiibner named the form with the yellow 

 costa ab. sangiiinella and Staudinger's short diagnosis is " al. ant. 

 vitta costali fiava." Stephens says that mnijitinella has the costa 

 "white or pale." Ragonot described a form with white costa as 

 ab. ictcrella, which Staudinger shortly diagnosed as " al. ant. flavis, 

 costa alba, ciliis roseis." This form with white costa might 

 according to Stephens, come under sant/niiieUa as " pale," while it 

 does not fully agree with Ragonot's icterella, which has yellow and 

 not rosy forewings. The other form in the series, in which the 

 costal area is suffused with very dark scales has not yet received a 

 name, but has been observed and noted by various authors from 

 Stephens onwards. The species is extremely local with a wide range 

 extending from Ireland, across Europe and Asia to Japan, and is 

 restricted to chalk districts. So local is this species that the late 

 Mr. C. G. Barrett, who had collected extensively in many parts of 

 England, Wales, and Ireland, had never taken it himself. I have 

 taken this species at several places on the southern face of the 

 North Downs in the day-time in sunshine, when it was disturbed. 

 It is stated to fly at night." 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited the flowering sprays of several hybrid 

 orchids of his own growing, and contributed the following note. 



" The fine Odontoi/lussiim jasper is a tertiary hybrid of harnjanum 

 and cri.ynim, and exhibits the remarkable phenomenon that it shows 

 that there has been complete fusion each time and thus the last 

 form jasiicr exhibits practically ^ crispnni to | harryaniDii, it being 

 really an octoroon, assuming harri/aiuDJi to be the nigger and crisjntui 

 the white man. The parentage is as follows : — 



harryanum x crispnni 



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 harryano-crispum x crispum 



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amabele x crispum 



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 jasper 



